The chief of staff of the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, said this Tuesday that the use of Western weapons for the attack inside the Russian Federation is a “life decision” and? would affect Moscow’s tactical aviation and his ability to operate in border areas.
USA agreed last week to change its policy after pressure from Ukraine and some of its European allies. Allowed kyiv to attack inside Russian territory with Western weapons with the aim of repelling the invasion. It has been one of the last to join the list of countries that lift the ban.
But the use of weapons is limited. They can only be used against certain military objectives within Russia, used by its Army to attack the northeastern Ukrainian region. Kharkov. Russian troops continue to advance on this territory, in which Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, assured that he seeks to create a “security zone.”
kyiv assured that expanding the use of its allies’ weapons would help roll back Russian advances already better defend the territory in the northeastern region of Kharkiv. “Permission to use Western weapons on the territory of the Russian Federation is a vital decision,” he said. Andriy Yermak in the Telegram messaging application.
And he added: ”This will have an impact on the development of the war, in the planning of counteroffensive actions and will weaken the ability of the Russians to use their forces in the border areas.” Yermak believes the decision would help better repel Russian airstrikes.
Zelensky welcomed the US decision last week. “Is about a step forward towards the goal (…) of defending our people who live in the villages located along the border” with Russia, said the Ukrainian president during the third Ukraine-Northern Europe summit in Stockholm.
Ukrainian forces are currently intensifying the offensives in the Russian Kursk border region, while they maintain pressure on the neighbor Belgorod, as reported by Russian authorities. The Ukrainian army is making use of the permission granted by its American ally.
This Tuesday, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported the downing of four projectiles from the Olja multiple rocket launcher system over Kursk. On Monday, in the same region, a total of 20 Ukrainian dronesaccording to the acting governor of Kursk, Alexei Smirnov.
The authority also warned today about a threat of bombing in the town of Kurchatov, which is home to the Kursk nuclear power plant, although the warning was lifted an hour later. Meanwhile, the governor of Belgorod, Viacheslav Gladkov, reported this Tuesday that throughout the day on Monday, the region was attacked by 36 Ukrainian drones.
According to Gladkov, also in the first half of the day on Tuesday, several attacks with unmanned devices had already been reported in Belgorod, which left at least one injured and caused several local fires that were put out by firefighters.
Ukrainian forces have destroyed with a HIMARS American-made anti-aircraft system deployed in the Russian oblast of Belgorod. The Institute for the Study of War (ISW) has written: “Ukrainian forces have hit a Russian S-300/400 air defense battery in Belgorod Oblastpresumably with (a) HIMARS, on June 1 or 2”
The ISW added that the partially destroyed air defense system was located to the north of the city of Belgorodregional capital of the oblast of the same name.
(With information from Reuters and EFE)
